HR activities for this month

What to do in HR – March

Make sure you are ready for the pay rates that increase in April. These include minimum/living wage rates and statutory payments, for example statutory sick pay, maternity/adoption/paternity/parental leave payments. Please see section on our toolkit ‘latest rates’

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Questions of the month

Here we set out questions we have been asked by our clients (anonymised) with answers. This section is updated regularly. For a full history of frequently asked questions, please visit our toolkit (membership required), submenu 'FAQ'.

Do companies need to amend employees' contracts to comply with GDPR?

No, it will not be necessary for employers to amend the contracts of existing employees to comply with GDPR. However, you should issue a new privacy notice to employees, providing information on the processing of their personal data and overriding any invalid data protection clauses in the contract. The GDPR specifies the information that the employer must provide in the privacy notice (purposes for processing the employee's personal data, the legal bases for the processing, information about the retention period and information about the employee's rights as a data subject).

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